Outback saddlers: 1,000s of miles for cattle station customers | Wide Open Spaces #5 | ABC Australia

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  • Every year one Australian couple drive thousands of kilometres through the outback in their mobile saddlery shop. They visit vast cattle stations, where they sell everything from horse saddles to pocket knives. Landline’s Pip Courtney filed this report in 2019. Subscribe ✅ and tap the notification bell 🔔 to be delivered Australian stories every day: ab.co/ABCAus-su...
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  • @nealcurry3937
    @nealcurry3937 3 роки тому +52

    All the news in the world isn’t grim. It’s wonderful to be reminded of that and these people really exist. Long live the Aussies.

  • @barclaygunn6404
    @barclaygunn6404 Рік тому +16

    Salt of the bloody earth this couple! What genuine people. I've got my Kent Saddlery ringers belt on right now and its fairdinkum the toughest belt I've ever owned. Terrific craftsmanship!

  • @lanceherron5911
    @lanceherron5911 3 роки тому +9

    Got here 30 years ago, and God I love this country 👍👍👍

  • @nmelkhunter1
    @nmelkhunter1 Місяць тому +1

    Awesome down to earth people. We need many, many more people like this in the world. Thank you for sharing.

  • @danielnixon6418
    @danielnixon6418 Рік тому +7

    That was a great story. True Australians through and through.

  • @timbuktoo2
    @timbuktoo2 3 роки тому +10

    Making me homesick....love the bush

  • @johnpayne2465
    @johnpayne2465 Рік тому +5

    Marvellous. I wish they could've continued for ever.

  • @AUSSIEMADMATT
    @AUSSIEMADMATT 3 роки тому +8

    good honest wonderful example of the Aussie human!!!!

  • @slc801
    @slc801 2 роки тому +10

    Can’t imagine 9 years of drought 😫 respect to them 👍🏼how the hell they survived ?

  • @roccosiffredi6427
    @roccosiffredi6427 3 роки тому +4

    Bloody brilliant people
    God bless you both for bringing such joy to the world

  • @burrabogielivestock2530
    @burrabogielivestock2530 3 роки тому +19

    Great people Great gear so important for the industry 👌

  • @thomasspainhour1112
    @thomasspainhour1112 3 роки тому +7

    Thanks for sharing your story NC, USA 🇺🇸

  • @markfryer9880
    @markfryer9880 3 роки тому +3

    This story was from 2019.
    Enjoyable if somewhat sad end of an era. Yes, you can certainly buy things online these days but somethings are best bought after you feel it in your hands first because your hands know if something feels right or wrong. Another thing about shopping in person is that you get to see other things that you may not have known about before be they tools or clothing.
    Hopefully Lyle and Helen are enjoying their retirement at least from the Station Run. I suspect that they will probably still help out in the workshop. Thirty five thousand kilometres in 5 months is a heck of a road trip to do year after year.
    Mark from Melbourne Australia

  • @richarddicktaylor219
    @richarddicktaylor219 3 роки тому +7

    Wonderful people who produce top quality products. If I could get home I'd love to try and do a few runs for them before I get too old.

  • @rrain3375
    @rrain3375 Рік тому +2

    From Canada the second largest country in the world. However the vastness of Australia surpasses anything here. Being four days from the closest supermarket gives you a appreciation how large Australia really is. I live in Toronto Canada population over 2 million you open the front door and you are 40ft from a neighbour.

  • @robertward553
    @robertward553 2 роки тому +1

    That's the definition of customer service. Nice!!!

  • @michaellaudahn
    @michaellaudahn 3 роки тому +2

    I'm kind of relieved to see that your iconic flies haven't got extinct yet in the last decades. In fact, they appear to be stronger than ever .)

  • @begaudvalentin8848
    @begaudvalentin8848 3 роки тому +4

    Great example of people that makes the industry stay alive!

  • @indiana146
    @indiana146 3 роки тому +6

    Would fatten a crowbar typical aussie statement
    Your all bloody marvellous

  • @nigelmorgan3449
    @nigelmorgan3449 5 місяців тому

    Another fantastic story by the ABC you guys have done it again

  • @sarikoske396
    @sarikoske396 3 роки тому +17

    I'm blessed to own a Lyle Kent saddle. So comfortable I can fall asleep riding 😁💖👍

  • @Gigi-xr3qs
    @Gigi-xr3qs 6 місяців тому

    @ 7:07 This guy is too proud to brush flies off of his face. Amazing.

  • @Altranite
    @Altranite 14 днів тому

    Great story

  • @alundauncey5262
    @alundauncey5262 Рік тому +1

    Great story love the real leathers here as quality lasts and sadly a old trade that seems to be on the run out gota love the outback and the real genuine Peaple out there

  • @buffalogal9139
    @buffalogal9139 Рік тому

    Really and enjoyable story. thank you.

  • @Pete-z6e
    @Pete-z6e 3 роки тому +5

    Still plenty of good buggers around.

  • @wondersofwa2792
    @wondersofwa2792 3 роки тому +4

    Wow, id consider doing it for them.

  • @Decade-c9k
    @Decade-c9k 4 місяці тому

    Sounds like quite the interesting lifestyle.

  • @Winchesterosteve
    @Winchesterosteve 2 роки тому

    I love Australia 🇦🇺

  • @rhys5567
    @rhys5567 3 роки тому

    Love abc talking us.

  • @cracka-tinnitribe9543
    @cracka-tinnitribe9543 3 роки тому +4

    There was up until a few years ago we had "LANSKY'S saddlery & leather shed. Have been getting my hand made double loop belt since 2005 untill a few years ago when the shop closed. 2 brothers ran the shop and made anything leather in house. Sad to see 2 of the very few saddle makers close up shop. I'd dare say these blokes may know of the Lansky brothers

  • @anthonymctigue9038
    @anthonymctigue9038 3 роки тому +1

    Great life best of luck to them HAPPINESS AND VERY LONG LIFE FROM WEST OF IRELAND O LOOKS TOP CLASS LEATHER AND VERY WELL MADE CLASS WORK

  • @raymondmassey6884
    @raymondmassey6884 3 роки тому +1

    Great couple! But how do they put up with the flies?

  • @longlost8424
    @longlost8424 3 роки тому

    take a good, hard look here folks because soon enough, you'll be saying "remember the good old days when....". beautiful story about the days when people were what's important in life.....

  • @adamfrbs9259
    @adamfrbs9259 3 роки тому +1

    I bet that's a specialized enough trade you could come to the USA on a work visa and travel here if you'd like. Lots of farms still left here.

  • @stuarth43
    @stuarth43 Рік тому

    nice couple, genuine
    But flamin' flies drive me crackers, no flies here on the Easter seaboard
    hard to find a heavy belt

  • @indiana146
    @indiana146 3 роки тому

    Amazing god bless you all adrian pom uk

  • @robinlecomte1242
    @robinlecomte1242 3 роки тому +7

    These video presentations, do more to promote Australia, than a "manufactured promotion can do". Any one watching this video, would have seen the Country, the People, the lifestyle, that makes Australia, what it is. I hope that someone can step in and continued to take the on road truck, back across the outback, selling the product that those, who work on those cattle stations, enjoy being able to buy.

  • @abbyarnold4477
    @abbyarnold4477 Рік тому +2

    To me though I love the cowboy life it is the most unrewarding job and never ending , that is why I moved to the metroplex thirty five years ago .

  • @JohnAlexanderBerry
    @JohnAlexanderBerry 3 роки тому +3

    'Horses trump motorbikes'' ? Of course they do! As far as I'm concerned, horses have always ''trumped'' motorbikes !!

    • @trekkerlanio4296
      @trekkerlanio4296 3 роки тому +2

      I agree.

    • @user-wickedflower
      @user-wickedflower 3 роки тому

      I like both 😊

    • @iansingsiansings2101
      @iansingsiansings2101 Рік тому

      Motorbikes?
      Always where you leave 'em.
      Can't drop your reins over your arm and roll a smoke on a bike.
      Bloody things don't swim real good either.

  • @sno7193
    @sno7193 Рік тому

    Awesome to see internet hasn't taken over here.

  • @rcwarrior2008
    @rcwarrior2008 3 роки тому +2

    thats a great story good on the kent family

  • @lovemyhuntingnz
    @lovemyhuntingnz 3 роки тому +2

    Good luck,all the best you deserve it, all the miles travelled...........

  • @chendavid1442
    @chendavid1442 3 роки тому

    nice couple

  • @sgpropertybuyertherapy
    @sgpropertybuyertherapy 3 роки тому +1

    Hello from Singapore

  • @topdeckdog
    @topdeckdog 3 роки тому +2

    Problem: They need to make saddles to herd cattle so they can make more saddles
    Solution: 🤦‍♂️

  • @indigrace6584
    @indigrace6584 3 роки тому +2

    Old mate looks forward to retirement? ...I think not...salt of the earth people...🇭🇲❤️

  • @vickidianacoghlan8946
    @vickidianacoghlan8946 3 роки тому

    OMG
    I love smokey the sausage dog.

  • @canadaboycanada3620
    @canadaboycanada3620 3 роки тому +9

    They won’t last a year in retirement before they are back at it!

    • @Jesse-B
      @Jesse-B 3 роки тому

      A sabbatical you might say :-)

  • @slowmotionspedup
    @slowmotionspedup 2 роки тому

    I met them at Roebuck plains station

  • @rajeshvaidya8160
    @rajeshvaidya8160 3 роки тому

    👌

  • @COPWATCHCABOOLTURE
    @COPWATCHCABOOLTURE 3 роки тому +5

    CRAFTING LEATHER GETS IN YOUR BLOOD YOU NEVER TRULY GIVE IT UP, IT'S A DIEING TRADE

  • @bobeden5027
    @bobeden5027 Рік тому +1

    Real Aussies, hey?

  • @laser170323
    @laser170323 3 роки тому

    Flies, flies, and more flies.

    • @mollymuch2808
      @mollymuch2808 Рік тому

      25million people and 25 trillion trillion flies

  • @craigstevens2112
    @craigstevens2112 3 роки тому

    I would love to be able to do this

  • @olivegrove2615
    @olivegrove2615 3 роки тому

    how about every 2 years 😉

  • @henrygreen19
    @henrygreen19 3 роки тому +1

    Double salt of the earth !!

  • @kotahurt
    @kotahurt Рік тому

    Saddam Hussein is gone, yeah I used to own a horse named donna

  • @jimbeck553
    @jimbeck553 3 роки тому

    I thought you gave all your guns to your overlords?

  • @billievalentina2553
    @billievalentina2553 3 роки тому

    The ripe cushion contradictorily hand because software feraly whirl save a cheap aunt. belligerent, venomous vise

  • @JohnnyCarroll-wi6tx
    @JohnnyCarroll-wi6tx Місяць тому

    thanks for the story.florida. usa

  • @ronanrogers4127
    @ronanrogers4127 3 роки тому +1

    Great story, thank you.